If you are not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original. By the time you’re an adult, you are afraid to be wrong, and we run companies like this…
-Sir Ken Robinson
We're curious minds, hackers and tinkerers.
We love to tweak our tools.
But our most important and wonderful tool is our own brain.
How can we understand what's going on so we can hack it?
This is the full-text slide deck for "Hack Your Brain".
You can find all the trivia in "Hack Your Brain - Trivia" and a french (lighter) version in "Hack Your Brain - FR".
Thoughts on why the world needs open source, and how we can use the ideal of open source to ensure more open, collaborative businesses and business models.
How do you navigate microaggressions - those words and actions that offend or hurt, even though they may be unintended? Learn some of the obstacles of authentic conversations, as well as practical strategies for what to do or say when you are the target of, witness to, and agents of microaggressions.
Content on the Internet DOUBLES every 48 hours. Even Small business has access to massive data. Making sense of this and applying it to your business is critical to your success.
Every company is now a Social Business company.
It isn’t Social Media
It is…Social Business
Big Data evens the playing field for even small companies
We're curious minds, hackers and tinkerers.
We love to tweak our tools.
But our most important and wonderful tool is our own brain.
How can we understand what's going on so we can hack it?
This is the full-text slide deck for "Hack Your Brain".
You can find all the trivia in "Hack Your Brain - Trivia" and a french (lighter) version in "Hack Your Brain - FR".
Thoughts on why the world needs open source, and how we can use the ideal of open source to ensure more open, collaborative businesses and business models.
How do you navigate microaggressions - those words and actions that offend or hurt, even though they may be unintended? Learn some of the obstacles of authentic conversations, as well as practical strategies for what to do or say when you are the target of, witness to, and agents of microaggressions.
Content on the Internet DOUBLES every 48 hours. Even Small business has access to massive data. Making sense of this and applying it to your business is critical to your success.
Every company is now a Social Business company.
It isn’t Social Media
It is…Social Business
Big Data evens the playing field for even small companies
Before ‘Cloud Technologies’ the barriers to entry where huge (Capital, infrastructure and IT Staff)
Cloud Technologies brings chaos, the chaos breeds opportunity, the rules change.
Change The Rules, Create new business models around technology, ATTACK the incumbent , take someone's market away from them
Culture is also changing, Dark Side of Social Media also separates us from our reality we have ‘second lives’ fight that as real humanity will never go out of style
Lead the charge ask me how Disruptive Chaos can give you opportunity in your industry kevin@sym.ph follow us @symphstudios
Bigdata 2014... the year it rained tacosUpstarts.tv
University of the Philippines Los Baños is hosting a Campus DevCon on January 20 (Monday)! Lightning Talks speakers include:- Kevin John Ventura, Mozilla Representative- Joseph Ross Lee, CEO at Infoshift, Inc- Kevin Leversee, Director - Emerging Markets Asia at StartupDragons- Micael Andrei Barlaan Diaz de Rivera, User Experience Engineer at Sulit.com.ph- Bryan Bibat, VP-Technology at DevCon PhilippinesMore details at:http://devcon.ph/events/campus-devcon-at-up-los-banos
You do not want a job you want what the job gives you. Good enough is the enemy of greatness. The BPO industry sponsors heavily the university belt here in Philippines grooming the next Generation to 'Get a Good Job' rather than INVENT and CREATE! I want to change that.
We are getting smarter faster, we use the current technology to invent the next technology and on and on. The rate of technology evolution is EXPONENTIAL not linear. We will have 100 years of evolution by 2020. In this century we will have 20,000 years of technology evolution. We have to create what will be or what is, or our economies will fail, our grandchildren will be enslaved to services and other economies. We are all human, we all have hopes, dreams, loves, and deserve the same access the creation. -UDWAJ like us on faceboook
Y4IT Congress Passion & Innovation Why Philippines is the Next Silicon Valley...Upstarts.tv
We need to focus on what can be, what will be not WHAT IS.
A thought becomes an idea or dream, becomes a meme (collective idea, or collective mind virus) it spreads following small world math 6 degrees through a population. Poverty is a Mind Virus a meme, a consciousness and a way of life.
Any marketer worth his salt knows that 80% or so of the population react to a pain versus 20% being proactive. This means 80% of people want to loose weight versus 20% getting in shape. This means 80% of people want to Get out of debt now, versus 20% of people wanting to invest for the future.
Well I am here to say, we can stop the pain. We can get out of debt now, and we can solve the problems facing us today. Innovation, that spark is the only way. Not the government, not an industry, that spark starts with us, right here and right now.
That conference 2015 fear and self-loathing in itAngela Dugan
How many times do you find yourself paralyzed with fear at the thought of raising your voice and speaking your opinions out loud, whether at a conference, in a business meeting, or even just from your cubicle chair? Do you cringe at the idea of asking for help when you get stuck on a challenging problem? Many of us do, and it can be crippling. Imposter syndrome is alive and well in IT, and the fear and self-doubt that we all experience can be a major blocker to progress and success. Not just in our personal lives, but on our software teams, and ultimately in our careers. As a fellow “imposter”, I’d like to share some of my own adventures in embracing my fears, learning to ask for help, and the sometimes unexpected and very positive outcomes that followed taking the leap.
Presentation given by Margaret Wheatley on March 28 to alumni of the Nyenrode Business University.
Location:
Nyenrode Business University
Breukelen, the Netherlands
10 Things Disney Can Teach Us About Running a Security Awareness Program. by Ashley Schwartau, Creative Director of The Security Awareness Company.
Download to have the GIFs work! :)
Whether you’re fooled by a push/pull door or you unexpectedly run into an academic lecturer outside of class, the best advice we can give you? Embrace the awkward! We’ve put together the most common awkward student moments you’re likely to run into during university life and added some handy tips on how to embrace them.
Everyone has stories of failure. That time you fell off your bike. The day you wore your jumper backwards without realising . That wireframe that confused your customers. The new feature no one used.
Failure is an inevitable part of life and as our delivery practices have matured we’ve celebrated the role that failure plays in building our products.
We Fail Fast. We Fail Forward. We Fail Better.
It almost feels like we want to fail.
It’s as if failure itself is our goal.
Has this obsession with failure clouded our thinking and distracted us from what we are actually trying to achieve?
In this session I will explore the prevailing ideas around failure and how they limit our ability to grow our teams and, just as importantly, the individuals that make up those teams. This talk will leave you with practical actions you can take to create a culture of learning and empowerment…and ultimately create a culture of success rather than failure.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8456/lessons-about-failure-from-the-girl-who-came-last
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
A presentation made to the participants of a onw-week programme at Vivekananda Inst. of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad, with an intention to motivate them to pursue excellence, in whatever endeavour they are interested.
2011 Feb 24 Power of Positive Thinking in overcoming Fear – [Please downlo...viswanadham vangapally
Power of Positive Thinking in overcoming Fear – This power point presentation has been specially prepared for the purpose of a one-week programme on How to overcome Fear of Failure, at Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad.
A live recording of the speech, in Telugu [with a sprinkling of English] given to the participants of this programme, can be listened by visiting www.archive.org and searching for Prof. V. Viswanadham, and locating the item as - 2011Feb24 Power of Positive Thinking in overcoming Fear.
Before ‘Cloud Technologies’ the barriers to entry where huge (Capital, infrastructure and IT Staff)
Cloud Technologies brings chaos, the chaos breeds opportunity, the rules change.
Change The Rules, Create new business models around technology, ATTACK the incumbent , take someone's market away from them
Culture is also changing, Dark Side of Social Media also separates us from our reality we have ‘second lives’ fight that as real humanity will never go out of style
Lead the charge ask me how Disruptive Chaos can give you opportunity in your industry kevin@sym.ph follow us @symphstudios
Bigdata 2014... the year it rained tacosUpstarts.tv
University of the Philippines Los Baños is hosting a Campus DevCon on January 20 (Monday)! Lightning Talks speakers include:- Kevin John Ventura, Mozilla Representative- Joseph Ross Lee, CEO at Infoshift, Inc- Kevin Leversee, Director - Emerging Markets Asia at StartupDragons- Micael Andrei Barlaan Diaz de Rivera, User Experience Engineer at Sulit.com.ph- Bryan Bibat, VP-Technology at DevCon PhilippinesMore details at:http://devcon.ph/events/campus-devcon-at-up-los-banos
You do not want a job you want what the job gives you. Good enough is the enemy of greatness. The BPO industry sponsors heavily the university belt here in Philippines grooming the next Generation to 'Get a Good Job' rather than INVENT and CREATE! I want to change that.
We are getting smarter faster, we use the current technology to invent the next technology and on and on. The rate of technology evolution is EXPONENTIAL not linear. We will have 100 years of evolution by 2020. In this century we will have 20,000 years of technology evolution. We have to create what will be or what is, or our economies will fail, our grandchildren will be enslaved to services and other economies. We are all human, we all have hopes, dreams, loves, and deserve the same access the creation. -UDWAJ like us on faceboook
Y4IT Congress Passion & Innovation Why Philippines is the Next Silicon Valley...Upstarts.tv
We need to focus on what can be, what will be not WHAT IS.
A thought becomes an idea or dream, becomes a meme (collective idea, or collective mind virus) it spreads following small world math 6 degrees through a population. Poverty is a Mind Virus a meme, a consciousness and a way of life.
Any marketer worth his salt knows that 80% or so of the population react to a pain versus 20% being proactive. This means 80% of people want to loose weight versus 20% getting in shape. This means 80% of people want to Get out of debt now, versus 20% of people wanting to invest for the future.
Well I am here to say, we can stop the pain. We can get out of debt now, and we can solve the problems facing us today. Innovation, that spark is the only way. Not the government, not an industry, that spark starts with us, right here and right now.
That conference 2015 fear and self-loathing in itAngela Dugan
How many times do you find yourself paralyzed with fear at the thought of raising your voice and speaking your opinions out loud, whether at a conference, in a business meeting, or even just from your cubicle chair? Do you cringe at the idea of asking for help when you get stuck on a challenging problem? Many of us do, and it can be crippling. Imposter syndrome is alive and well in IT, and the fear and self-doubt that we all experience can be a major blocker to progress and success. Not just in our personal lives, but on our software teams, and ultimately in our careers. As a fellow “imposter”, I’d like to share some of my own adventures in embracing my fears, learning to ask for help, and the sometimes unexpected and very positive outcomes that followed taking the leap.
Presentation given by Margaret Wheatley on March 28 to alumni of the Nyenrode Business University.
Location:
Nyenrode Business University
Breukelen, the Netherlands
10 Things Disney Can Teach Us About Running a Security Awareness Program. by Ashley Schwartau, Creative Director of The Security Awareness Company.
Download to have the GIFs work! :)
Whether you’re fooled by a push/pull door or you unexpectedly run into an academic lecturer outside of class, the best advice we can give you? Embrace the awkward! We’ve put together the most common awkward student moments you’re likely to run into during university life and added some handy tips on how to embrace them.
Everyone has stories of failure. That time you fell off your bike. The day you wore your jumper backwards without realising . That wireframe that confused your customers. The new feature no one used.
Failure is an inevitable part of life and as our delivery practices have matured we’ve celebrated the role that failure plays in building our products.
We Fail Fast. We Fail Forward. We Fail Better.
It almost feels like we want to fail.
It’s as if failure itself is our goal.
Has this obsession with failure clouded our thinking and distracted us from what we are actually trying to achieve?
In this session I will explore the prevailing ideas around failure and how they limit our ability to grow our teams and, just as importantly, the individuals that make up those teams. This talk will leave you with practical actions you can take to create a culture of learning and empowerment…and ultimately create a culture of success rather than failure.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8456/lessons-about-failure-from-the-girl-who-came-last
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
A presentation made to the participants of a onw-week programme at Vivekananda Inst. of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad, with an intention to motivate them to pursue excellence, in whatever endeavour they are interested.
2011 Feb 24 Power of Positive Thinking in overcoming Fear – [Please downlo...viswanadham vangapally
Power of Positive Thinking in overcoming Fear – This power point presentation has been specially prepared for the purpose of a one-week programme on How to overcome Fear of Failure, at Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad.
A live recording of the speech, in Telugu [with a sprinkling of English] given to the participants of this programme, can be listened by visiting www.archive.org and searching for Prof. V. Viswanadham, and locating the item as - 2011Feb24 Power of Positive Thinking in overcoming Fear.
Finding My Voice + Learning to Trust my Gut - from LeanIN Toronto LaunchTara Hunt
I gave this talk at the LeanIN Toronto Launch party on September 24 to a group of 300 amazing women. It is all about finding your voice and being yourself and not letting anyone else tell you otherwise.
Internet of Things, You have been Assimilated Upstarts.tv
The Internet of Things (IOT) is not just the utility of devices and sensors to networks. IOT signifies the next pivot in evolution of the relationship of Man to Nature, Man to Man and Man to Machine.
-Kevin Leversee
The frontier, the cloud and eating your dogfoodUpstarts.tv
I will be talking about the Cloud and how 'Thinking differently' about how to make use of the Cloud is much more than saving costs on IT infrastructure. Cloud allows access to big a immense amount of data (every two days the Web Doubles). In this pool of information are patterns and vast stores of intelligence. Presently in 2012 we are on the Frontier of Singularity- Software like Apple's Siri uses the Cloud to find Patterns, (versus traditional IBM Brute Force Computing). Behavior Driven Development used in software creation describes how the software should behave (after built) in plain easy to understand text. This serves as the story about the purpose of the technology, an aid and objectives for the engineers to build it, and as a test for the outcome. Using Behavior Driven development (Human Stories) with Cloud (remember that massive pool of information) lets you have amazingly fast cycles of evolution, each cycle passing or failing then improving.
Do you understand where this is heading? We are getting smarter faster- at an exponential (doubling) rate. In April of 2012 This is happening today, the wave is already cresting. This is not something that is ABOUT to happen, its already happened -and the successful companies and brands are doing it. Every Business is now a Software Business. How you understand what IS happening, and what YOU need to do determines if you and your business are dinosaurs soon to be extinct...or if you are leading the way on the Cloud Frontier.
Wiifm and mediocrity how the flat world changed everything 2012 versionUpstarts.tv
What is in it for me? and Mediocrity How the Flat World Changed Everything. Think about how even the most advanced Technology soon becomes Commodity. Services eventually become commodities, so we have fight mediocrity, focus on building teams and inventing. REAL TALENT is never a commodity.
Y4IT Passion & Innovation Why Philippines is the Next Silicon Valley w NotesUpstarts.tv
Notes Included: A Thought becomes an idea becomes a dream, a movement and meme.
We need to focus on what can be, what will be not WHAT IS.
A thought becomes an idea or dream, becomes a meme (collective idea, or collective mind virus) it spreads following small world math 6 degrees through a population. Poverty is a Mind Virus a meme, a consciousness and a way of life.
Any marketer worth his salt knows that 80% or so of the population react to a pain versus 20% being proactive. This means 80% of people want to loose weight versus 20% getting in shape. This means 80% of people want to Get out of debt now, versus 20% of people wanting to invest for the future.
Well I am here to say, we can stop the pain. We can get out of debt now, and we can solve the problems facing us today. Innovation, that spark is the only way. Not the government, not an industry, that spark starts with us, right here and right now.
Trustsource: The Value of Trust in the Freelance Outsource CloudUpstarts.tv
In a cloud of freelance strangers, trust is the ultimate currency. Keep good people close focus on teams. Sym.ph is building an ecosystem to help the technology community grow and remove the choke points often associated with outsourcing or freelancing.
Devcon APC 2010 facebook found my laptop the power of small world mathUpstarts.tv
Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of acquaintances. In his book, Duncan Watts uses this intriguing phenomenon--colloquially called "six degrees of separation"--as a prelude to a more general exploration: under what conditions can a small world arise in any kind of network?
The networks of this story are everywhere: the brain is a network of neurons; organisations are people networks; the global economy is a network of national economies, which are networks of markets, which are in turn networks of interacting producers and consumers. Food webs, ecosystems, and the Internet can all be represented as networks, as can strategies for solving a problem, topics in a conversation, and even words in a language. Many of these networks, the author claims, will turn out to be small worlds.
How do such networks matter? Simply put, local actions can have global consequences, and the relationship between local and global dynamics depends critically on the network's structure. Watts illustrates the subtleties of this relationship using a variety of simple models---the spread of infectious disease through a structured population; the evolution of cooperation in game theory; the computational capacity of cellular automata; and the sychronisation of coupled phase-oscillators.
Watts's novel approach is relevant to many problems that deal with network connectivity and complex systems' behaviour in general: How do diseases (or rumours) spread through social networks? How does cooperation evolve in large groups? How do cascading failures propagate through large power grids, or financial systems? What is the most efficient architecture for an organisation, or for a communications network? This fascinating exploration will be fruitful in a remarkable variety of fields, including physics and mathematics, as well as sociology, economics, and biology.
The Internet is constantly evolving. As the speed, flexibility and complexity of connections increase exponentially, the Web is increasingly beginning to resemble a biological analog; the human brain. But what exactly is it that’s makes us, or the Web, smart?
In the brain, neurologists now believe that it is the density and flexibility of the connections between neurons, not simply neurons themselves, which are at the root of intelligence. These connections are called Synapses.
Even if the total number of brain cells, or neurons, begins to diminish in early adulthood, our ability to generate new connections between neurons and between different parts of the brain – what neurologist call “plasticity” - persists throughout life. What's more, the brain seems to be like any other muscle in that plasticity can be increased with exercise.
It is at the synapse, the "gap" between one neuron and another, where neural connections are consummated to create pathways that, when used, are reinforced with additional connections and, when unused, are "pruned" to make way for new, more useful pathways. It is these incredible chemical bridges that define the patterns of communication that, at any given time, define our cognitive capacity.
We believe that this evolving view of neural science provides an increasingly apt metaphor for what we call the "Synaptic Web" in that the connections between objects are more important than the objects themselves. The question is; how are these connections changing to create new experiences? In other words, there is an opportunity to stop looking at the nodes and start looking at the space between them.
The exploding variety, speed and flexibility of electronic connections - those between people, data sets, applications, the real world and the online world, gestures and meaning and content and communication – is at the root of what some have called an evolving “collective intelligence.” Thus, the Synaptic Web is about the evolution of the Internet from document delivery platform, to a platform for communication ("2.0") and now towards something much more profound: a dynamic web of adaptive "organic" and implicit connections whereby real-time information flows give structure and meaning to previously unconnected sets of data. The Internet is a sea of conversations streaming through connections, and these patterns have meaning.
10. Agile Flexible Process Traditional Waterfall etc. TRUST! Encourage Mistakes FEAR! Punish Mistakes Cyclical, open and sometimes painful Top Down Command and Control Design on Behavior and evolutions Design on Demographics Build around Behavior not usability Build to Use Case then defend it till you die